Cable clamp



latented Nov. 6, 19.23..

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r,r.rarar LEON DE CAIG1\TY, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

Application filed February 12, 1923. Serial No. 818,461.

To all w 71 0 m it may concern Be it known that I, Lnon Dn Carcnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable Clamps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to cable clamps, the principal objects sought being simplicity of construction and efliciency.

. Another object is that or" the least injury possible to a cable on which the clamp is employed.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the further description thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application and in which like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cable clamp as applied to the bight of a rope; and

Figure 2 is a central sectional view through same, showing the wedge or key in elevation.

1 represents the body portion or block of. the clamp, which is substantially rectangular in shape having a through hole 2 in the thi1nble or holding end thereof and two channels or holes 3 and. 4 extending longitudinally of the block, but diverging towards the thimble end thereof, the channel 3 opening through the edge of. the block as at 5 where it forms a sheave-like groove about the thimble and merges at the opposite side into the channel a. The channel 3 is of circular form within the block and designed to be slightly larger in diameter than the cable to which the clamp. is applied, while the channel 4 is circular only on that side next to the channel 3, the opposite portion of said channel being rectangular in shape and substantially twice the depth of the circular part leaving parallel face wall longitudinally the edge of the block. This it will be seen forms a channel, the opposite walls of which converge towards the thimble end of the block.

The cable to which the clamp is applied is designed to lie within the channels 3 and 4 as clearly illustrated, and a tapered, substantially rectangularly shaped wedging member 7 fits within the rectangular portion of the channel 4 and is designed to impinge the cable therein and hold same against longitudinal movement, the cable engaging face thereof being concaved for the purpose.

8 represents the body or main portion of the cable being clamped, while 9 represents the bight of the cable.

The operation of the device is obvious; the bight of the cable is reeved into the block, when the wedge or key 7, which preferably is provided with a gib for convenience in extracting, is driven into the channel 4, securely impinging the cable therein and positively holding same, while any other form or" holding or pulling member, as a clevis or the like, may be applied to the thimble end of the block through the hole 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. A cable clamp of the character described comprising a substantially rectangularly shaped block having a transverse cable engaging hole through one end there of. cable receiving channels longitudinally of the block diverging towards the transverse hole and about same, and a tapered key within one of the channels for impinging the cable therein, substantially as described.

2. A cable clamp comprising in combination a body block, a transverse hole in one end thereof. longitudinal channels within the block and extending about the hole, and

* a ta cred wed 'e within one of the channels for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. 

